On the Nature of Things | Forum

i quite got into the "mind hacking" meme at one stage - the way different humans have different response patterns when in different moods and the ability to trigger a mood using different concepts... a pulpy scifi book (paratwa?) first got me thinking about it. the simplistic explanation b...

there is a cultural difference in perception between those of us raised "sticks n stones" versus those raised to be ermm, polite.

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simple answer for windows after a significant hardware change is backup your stuff and reinstall ... unless you enjoy spending hours on forums and tinkering with drivers and registry settings.

What is "A Right" anyway? Something a group of people allow themselves to do; usually expressed as a prohibition on an authority's actions. I don't see where "Internet Access" and it's implied infrastructure falls under that rubric unless enough people agree and write it all dow...

to answer the topic question, i do think everyone needs access to the internet and that can be done by via the upgrade of libraries and i dont think private industry was failing to provide extremely cheap options - basic smartphones with high speed data connections are only $30 a month. The Interne...

the government tried and failed to get all the private suppliers to implement their blacklist filtering and also enforce their copyright agreements with the american big boys so anyone that isnt seeing the nationalisation of our infrastructure with that in mind isnt paying attention. alas, thats a m...

to answer the topic question, i do think everyone needs access to the internet and that can be done by via the upgrade of libraries and i dont think private industry was failing to provide extremely cheap options - basic smartphones with high speed data connections are only $30 a month.

feck wrote:Your $40 Internet connection was made possible and brought about by government subsidies.

how so... i use wireless and thats private infrastructure as far as im aware.

do you mean the awful debacle of the socialised telecom becoming the frankenstein telstra ?

its is a "right" now in australia via the NBN and as with all government controlled rights say goodbye to competition and different vendors with different choices and say hello to centralised one-way-for-everyone at a government dictated cost with subsidies for the poor.... makes turning o...

the tea party was easily ignorable because of the christian fundies ranting about gays (queue redneck durian stereotype) and occupy australia is pretty much doing the same thing to itself with stunts like this. (queue whiny arts student stereotype) What do these tarded zombie walks have to do with ...

the tea party was easily ignorable because of the christian fundies ranting about gays (queue redneck durian stereotype) and occupy australia is pretty much doing the same thing to itself with stunts like this. (queue whiny arts student stereotype)

with regards occupy and the mainstream, id say the latest approach of the "zombie shuffle" is doing way more harm than good... http://wn.com/Melbourne_Zombie_Shuffle http://www.walkingmaps.com.au/IndividualWalkAction.action?walkId=67 hassling people in the train station and calling em work...

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Three Aussie blokes working up on an outback mobile phone tower Mongrel, Coot and Bluey . As they start their descent, Coot slips, falls off the tower and is killed instantly.. As the ambulance takes the body away, Bluey says, 'Well, bugger me, someone's gotta go and tell Coot's wife. Mongrel says, ...

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